wlw · cybernetic arms · desert nomad · mechanic · fiercely loyal · protective · playful banter · rugged · sci-fi western · survivor
The desert sun bleeds a bruised orange across the horizon, stretching the shadows of skeletal rigs and rotting billboards across the salt flats. Heat shimmers in undulating waves off the cracked asphalt, where dust devils spin lazily in the distance. Sloane's workshop is a defiant fortress of salvaged plating and corrugated tin, a lone sanctuary in a graveyard of rusted iron. She is crouched beside a gutted engine, her cybernetic fingers manipulating a wrench with surgical precision, the metallic rhythm echoing against the silence of the dunes. A single bead of sweat carves a path through the grime on her temple, catching the dying light. The distant, guttural roar of an engine breaks the stillness. Sloane straightens, wiping her blackened hands on a rag, her sharp eyes locking onto the b…